Prof. em. Dr. Armin Grün

Armin Grün has been Full Professor of Photogrammetry at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry at the ETH Zurich since August 1984 and serves currently as Head of Institute.

Prof. Grün was born on April 27, 1944 in Berneck, Germany. He studied Geodesy and received his doctorate in Photogrammetry at the Technical University in Munich in 1974. He was on the scientific staff at the German Geodetic Research Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich (1969), scientific assistant at the Institute for Photogrammetry and Cartography (1969/1976), senior engineer at the Chair for Photogrammetry of the TU in Munich (1976/1981), Associate Professor at the Department of Geodetic Sciences of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1981/1984). He had teaching and research assignments at the University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, USA, Department of Geodesy, TU Delft, Holland, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, the Department of Geomatics, Melbourne University, Australia and the National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.

In his research Prof. Grün is currently focusing on problems of automatic extraction of objects (roads, buildings) from aerial and satellite images, modelling of new linear Array Sensor Cameras, on machine vision tasks, on motion capture, cultural heritage modeling, 3D city models and generation of VR/VE.

He is an editorial advisor for several scientific publications, has published over 350 articles and conference papers, and is the author or co-author of twenty books and conference volumes. Since July 2000 he is the Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

His major international awards and honors include the Otto von Gruber Gold Medal (ISPRS, 1980), Talbert Abrams Award Grand Trophy (ASPRS, 1985 and 1995), Fairchild Award (ASPRS, 1995), Honorary Professorship of the Wuhan University (China, 1995), Miegunyah Distinguished Fellowship Award (University of Melbourne, 1999), U.V. Helava Award (ISPRS, 2000) and the E.H. Thompson Award (GB, 2005).